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jeudi 14 octobre 2010

FIRE FROM A VALVE

By Tikum Mbah Azonga

I kicked the bucketAnd enjoyed the splashed waterI saw it escape into the waiting valveI didn`t greet the first passerbyFor fear the stop gap measure might backfireThat`s why the yard boys didn`t singIf only the firefighters knewWhere the real fire wasThe world would be an entirely new place.

Qui êtes-vous ?

I speak over twenty languages. I have native-level command of both French and English. In fact, after my higher education in France, I was recruited by France and seconded to a High School in London as a "French Mother Tongue" teacher, or what is commonly referred to as a Foreign Language Assistant. I am by training a journalist, teacher of French and Spanish, as well as a translator-interpreter. I studied in Cameroon, France and England.I have criss crossed Africa and Europe.I have worked as a journalist and teacher of French and Spanish in some United Kingdom High Schools, but especially in London. Today, I teach journalism at the University of Buea in Cameroon.
I have published books of poetry in English and French, some of which are official text books in Cameroonian schools. I am currently working on a collection of poems in Spanish and another in Ewondo, a variety of the Beti language spoken in three of Cameroon's ten regions as well as in parts of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.